Sahih al-Bukhari 5301

Translation

(a companion of Messenger of Allah ﷺ) Messenger of Allah ﷺ, holding out his middle and index fingers, said, "My advent and the Hour's are like this (or like these)," namely, the period between his era and the Hour is like the distance between those two fingers, i.e., very short.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 867bMusnad Ahmad 13336Musnad Ahmad 14334

Narrators

1. 1
   Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. Abū Nuʿaym and more than one said: 88 AH. Al-Wāqidī and others said: 91 AH. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: he lived a hundred years or more, so on this basis he would have lived until the year 96 AH or after it
   سَهْلُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   سمعت
2. 2
   Salamah b. Dīnār al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Khalfūn said: 132 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī: 133 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 135 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 140 AH. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 143 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said: 144 AH
   أَبُو حَازِمٍثقة عابد
   قال
3. 3
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAlī b. ʿAbdillāh

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imāmd. 234 AH, or: 235 AH, also said: 233 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت إمام
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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